Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 302
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 302 of the deluge. Then, after this, M u s a [Moses] also came with the same spiritual beauty, and after a period of suffering lasting a few days, it led to the downfall of Pharaoh. And then at long last came the Lord of the Prophets, the Best of Creation, our lord and master, the Chosen One, Mu h ammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with the sublime spiritual beauty of the highest grandeur, in whose praise it would be enough to quote the noble verse: 1 اَنَد ىّٰلَدَتَف َناَكَف َباَق ِنْيَسْوَق ْوَا ىٰنْدَا That is to say, that Prophet drew very near to the Presence of Allah, and then he leaned towards the creation, and thus fulfilled both the obliga- tions; viz. obligations to God and to His creation , and manifested both kinds of spiritual beauty. He became like the chord between two bows; that is to say, like the central line between two arcs that would look something like this: Creator Creation Arc Arc C H P The inherently impure and blind people, however, failed to see this beauty, as Allah the Exalted, says: 2 َنْوُرُظْنَي َكْيَلِا َو ْمُه اَل َنْوُرِصْبُي Meaning: ‘They look towards you but they see you not’, and in the end all those blind ones were destroyed. 1. S u rah an-Najm, 53:9–10 [Publisher] 2. S u rah al-A‘r a f, 7:199 [Publisher]